So you want to be a 40s pin-up girl for Halloween? Well, it’s twelve days before that exciting day, but with creativity and tactics you should be able to pull it off!

There’s no reason why teenagers shouldn’t work as models, provided they balance their modelling with their other obligations and take the right approach. Here, we present the five key steps every aspiring teen model should take in order to combine modelling with thir existing lifestyles and stay healthy and happy.

The fashion world of the past few weeks has been dominated by news of airbrushing encouraging anorexia in teens, size-12 models being considered fat and models making claims about living on nothing but “vodka, coffee, champagne and cigarettes”. Hardly the stories you’d expect to be reading in the run up to London Fashion Week. Nevertheless, this is what has been at the forefront of industry discussions recently.

39-year-old supermodel Naomi Campbell has called the modelling industry ‘racist’ and complained that the economic climate will lead to fewer black and mixed-race models being used for high-end campaigns.

It has been reported today that the Liberal Democrats are launching a campaign against using airbrushing and other forms of appearance enhancing in advertising campaigns aimed at children under 16.

Alexa Chung was discovered by a scout from London-based modelling agency Storm Model Management at age 16 in the Comedy Tent at Reading Festival. After finishing her A-Levels, Alexa had offers from both King’s College London to read English and the Chelsea College of Art and Design to study Art, but instead chose to pursue modelling for a while.

Have you got a photoshoot coming up? Worried, nervous or just need to know what to expect? Here are the five most important things to remember when you’re modeling…

Do the media put pressure on models to be thin and how is it affecting those who love up to them and their health.

Follow the leader.

True beauty comes from the character that is deep within you. I’ve always believed that being beautiful is all about being real to yourself.